To avoid buyer limitations, wait for the 90-day period or consider the market.

.- Shadowing another investor in my area- looking for openings in real estate management companies, or offering my helpOr..I could take my facilities job for the time being and save for an investment further down the roadI want to begin my investing as soon as I can but feel the opportunities that are available to me are a little limited due to my lack of experience and cash. 

If your losses come from something you "work" in, like your own construction business, they are nonpassive and exempt from PAL rules (although may still be limited by one of the other set of rules).Knowing how we love to call anything we do "business", the IRS clarifies what is considered passive and therefore restricted by PAL rules:1.

This means that you will probably need to pay registration and filing fees in at least 2 states if you don’t buy CA property as a CA resident.Any lawsuits should be limited to the assets of the LLC and not your personal assets (assuming you run the LLC appropriately and the corporate veil is not pierced, some debate as to SMLLC).

If you're going to start with one at a time, know and study your competition.Good luck....you are right in the heat of things. 

Limiting your investment opportunities to one property is, well, very limiting.The 70k loss is irrelevant...it's a sunk cost and you can claw that back with the current property or any other investment...whichever is fastest/best. 

Very limited development and high demand. 

However, the Renters' Rights and Stabilization Act of 2024 now caps security deposits in Maryland at one month's rent in most cases, limiting landlords' ability to require higher deposits for higher-risk tenants​.

I would think most landlords, who choose to be landlords in very Tenant friendly San Francisco, would pony up the 5.2% knowing that the rate has gone up and down throughout time, unless they want to run the risk of their tenant's finding out and called out as being a bad landlord, being taken on by the very helpful San Francisco Tenants Union or taken to Small Claims Court.Maybe there is a silver lining in California's recent change in security deposits that limit it to one months rent when it used to be up to 2 month's rent for unfurnished units and up to 3x for furnished units.By the way, I took a look at your Company, https://www.getwhale.co/  Since your firm is only offering 4.2%, were you trying to market in San Fran before discovering the Rent Board rate?

Study the market.